India

1980 International Symposium on Bustards, Juipur

1980 Jayaprakash Narayan (Socialist) Commemoration

1980 The 50th Anniversary of Dandi March (Gandhi’s Defiance of Salt Tax Law)

1980 Rajah Annamalai Chettiar (Banker and Educationist) Commemoration

1980 The 150th Anniversary of Scottish Church College, Calcutta

1980 Lord Mountbatten Commemoration

1980 Award of 1979 Nobel Peace Prize to Mother Teresa

1980 The 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Prem Chand

1980 Olympic Games – Moscow, USSR

1980 The 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Helen Keller, Campaigner for the Handicapped